Vlad Ionescu is associate professor in the history and theory of art and architecture at PXL MAD School of Arts/ Faculty of Architecture and Arts, Hasselt University). Originally specialised in formalist aesthetics and art history (Aloïs Riegl, Heinrich Wölfflin and Wilhelm Worringer), he is currently working on the relationship between art and architecture, aesthetics and art theory. Besides co-editing and co-translating Jean-François Lyotard’s Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists (Leuven University Press, 2009-2013), he is the author of Applied Arts, Implied Art. Craftsmanship and Technology in the Age of Art Industry (A&S Books, 2016), Pneumatology. An Inquiry into the Representation of Wind, Air, Breath (ASP, 2017), Waiting Rooms of Architecture, with Malgorzata Maria Olchowaka (VAi, 2023), Felix Aestheticus. Pour Herman Parret,co-edited with Sémir Badir et Nathalie Kremers (Peeters, 2023), and many other essays on the aforementioned topics.
Contact
vlad.ionescu@uhasselt.be